Re: recent ntpd problems

[Gene Heskett <gene heskett verizon net>]

On Monday 19 September 2005 11:59, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>On 2005-09-19 11:51:59 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Monday 19 September 2005 11:42, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>> >On 2005-09-19 10:48:34 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >[new version of ntpd]
>> >
>> >> This latter version does not seem to be writing to
>> >> /var/log/ntpd.log at all, so I have no idea what its doing.
>> >
>> >Have you started it with -l /var/log/ntpd.log? Normally ntpd writes
>> > to syslog (and I believe this it has done this for the last 10 years
>> > or so).
>>
>> No, but I didn't have to before.  In the init.d/ntpd script, the ntpd
>> starter is "daemon ntpd $OPTIONS" but I've NDI where $OPTIONS
>> actually gets set.
>
>It gets set in /etc/sysconfig/ntpd
>
Ahh, I see.  I appended it there, and on a restart, its back to using
its own log, many thanks.

>On my system it contains
>
>    # Drop root to id 'ntp:ntp' by default.  Requires kernel >= 2.2.18.
>    OPTIONS="-U ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid"
>
>which I believe is the default for FC2 (I certainly can't remember
>changing it). AFAIR the default for (x)ntpd on Redhat systems has always
>been to log to syslog since Redhat 3.0.3 (before I used Slackware, and I
>think it was the same).
>
>	hp

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